Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE MILKY WAY IS A COWPATH, by ROBERT FROST Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On wings too stiff to flap Last Line: For what they didn’t earn Subject(s): Milky Way | ||||||||
On wings too stiff to flap We started to exult In having left the map On journey the penult. But since we got nowhere, Like small boys we got mad And let go at the air With everything we had. Incorrigible Quidnuncs, We would see what would come Of pelting heaven with chunks Of crude uranium. At last in self collapse We owned up to our wife The Milky Way perhaps Was woman's way of life. Our un-outwitted spouse Replied she had as soon Believe it was the cow's That overshot the moon. The parabolic curve Of her celestial track, As any might observe, Might never bring her back. The famous foster nurse Of man and womankind Had for the universe Left trivia behind. And gone right on astray Through let-down pasture bars Along the Milky Way A-foraging on stars. Perennial as flowers, To where some allege This universe of ours Has got a razor edge. And if she don't take care She'll get her gullet cut, But that is no affair Of anybody's but" The author of these words Whose lifelong unconcern Has been with flocks and herds For what they didn't earn. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A DREAM OF JULIUS CAESAR by ROBERT FROST A PECK OF GOLD by ROBERT FROST A SUMMER'S GARDEN by ROBERT FROST A WINTER'S NIGHT by ROBERT FROST CAESAR'S LOST TRANSPORT SHIPS by ROBERT FROST CLEAR AND COLDER; BOSTON COMMON by ROBERT FROST DOWN THE BROOK by ROBERT FROST EVENING IN A SUGAR ORCHARD by ROBERT FROST |
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